City and Gender

Dr. Ulla Terlinden, Professor of Urban Sociology, Fachbereich Stadtplanung, Landschaftsplanung, Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel.

• Visions of the City. Introduction.- Women’s Movement and Public Spaces.- From the Local Level to the Global Level and Back Again. How Feminism has Spread.- “Public Man” and “Private Woman”: Discourse and Practice in Western Societies.- Public Spaces as a Contribution to Egalitarian Cities.- Symbols and Urban Space.- Symbols of Gender in Architecture and Urban Design.- Gender Reading of the Urban Space.- Social Differences and Urban Development.- Urban Geography and Women in the Periphery’s Metropolis: The Example of Istanbul, Turkey.- What’s Wrong with a Female Head?.- Sustainability and Planning.- Urban Sustainability, Quality of Life and Gender.- Towards a Sustainable City.- Ways to Sustainable Transport: Gender and Mobility.- Notes on the Contributors.